Whenever the monsoon trough on the eastern side of the summertime Asian monsoon is in its normal orientation (oriented east-southeast to west-northwest), tropical cyclones along its periphery will move with a westward motion.
The ballcourt is oriented northwest to southeast and is 48 m long.
Some of Al-Shāriqah's interior boundaries are only presumptive, but its main portion is an irregularly shaped tract, oriented northwest-southeast, stretching about 60 miles (100 km) from the Persian Gulf (northwest) to the central inland region of the Oman promontory (southeast).
Epirus is largely made up of great limestone ridges oriented northwest-southeast and north-south; they reach up to 8,600 feet (2,600 m) in height and fall off more steeply to the west.
The first fault to rupture, oriented west-northwest to east-southeast, slipped as much as 37 meters; the slippage lasted for 50 seconds.
Ganoga Lake has a long, narrow oval shape, oriented north-northwest to south-southeast.
While vineyards are up and down Mendocino along the spine of Highway 101, most of the pinot noir is planted in the Anderson Valley, a foggy slice of land bisected by State Route 128, oriented southeast to northwest, pointing toward the Pacific.
A strong association of aspect with SRTM error was noted, with positive error magnitudes peaking for aspects oriented to the northwest and negative error magnitudes peaking for slopes facing southeast.
The left, center, and right columns show plan views and results corresponding to the cases of magnetic anomalies oriented north-south, northwest-southeast, and east-west, respectively.
